Books

Hobby Hydroponics – Second Edition

Hydroponics as a hobby can provide enjoyment, stress relief, and the gratification of creating your own fresh, pesticide-free garden. The increased interest in hobby hydroponics over the last 30 years has created market demand and, therefore, wide-spread availability of small-scale hydroponic units.

Hobby Hydroponics, Second Edition is a guide to all aspects of home hydroponic culture and systems, providing the most up-to-date information on hobby hydroponic growing, including the numerous advancements in concepts, technology, and products since the first edition.

Hydroponics Photo Album CD

This CD is included in the new 7th Ed. of “Hydroponic Food Production”.

Available Alone: $19.95 (includes shipping)

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A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower – SEVENTH EDITION

Completely revised and updated, details advances that have taken place in this field since the publication of the previous edition in 2001. Meant for hobby and commercial growers the book:

Shows readers how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of the many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops

Provides background in plant physiology and nutrition essential for growing these crops

Describes nutrient formulations and their applications in nutrient solutions with calculations

524 pages

This practical guide to soil-less growing practices provides detailed information on how to design, set up, and operate hydroponic culture systems. Featuring more than 500 photographs, drawings and tables, the seventh edition of this bestselling book has been extensively updated and expanded. The text describes the most successful growing cultures to use with specific crops and details media as well as hydroponic techniques. Chapters cover nutrient uptake and mixing as well as deficiencies and their symptoms, plant nutrition, nutrient solution, water culture, tropical hydroponics and special applications, plant culture, nutrient film technique, gravel culture, and more.

A companion CD featuring over 100 pages of color photographs dealing with commercial hydroponics is included.

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Hydroponic Home Food Gardens by Howard Resh

Modern hydroponic methods in an easy-to-follow manual. Covers several forms of hydroponic gardening – with materials and methods, selection of best plans for the home gardener, principles and practice for the successful propagation and nurturing of food plants. Numerous photographs, drawings and tables make it easy to have a variety of gardens; simple hydroponic window or deck trays or containers, or full-scale, productive hydroponic gardens or home greenhouse projects. Soft cover.

A fine manual for producing home-grown tomatoes hydroponically, with automated procedures that minimize work so that you can enjoy a bountiful, flavorful crop. Many illustrations help to show the way. Soft cover.

200 pages

Hydroponics for the Home Grower by Howard Resh

Hydroponics offers many advantages to traditional soil-based horticulture. These include greater control over many of the limiting factors, such as light, temperature, and pests, as well as the ability to grow plants in all seasons. With instruction from one of the top recognized authorities worldwide, Hydroponics for the Home Grower gives you step-by-step guidance on how to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, arugula, bok choy, and various herbs year-round within your home or in a backyard greenhouse. With Dr. Howard Resh’s help, you’ll learn:

326 pages

Background information on how hydroponics evolved

The nutritional and environmental demands of plants and how to control these factors

How to provide formulations of nutrients optimal to the plants you wish to grow

The many different hydroponic systems you can purchase or build for yourself

Designs for different types of greenhouses with components to fit your personal taste and budget

Crop selection and step-by-step procedures, including seeding, transplanting, training, pest and disease control, and harvesting ï¿½ along with when to plant and when to change crops

How you can grow Microgreens on your kitchen counter

The book includes an appendix with sources of seeds and other supplies, along with helpful websites and lists of books, and articles on growing hydroponically. By following the guidelines in this book, you’ll understand everything you need to know to get your home-growing operation up and running in no time.